A new major rift has emerged between the UK and the European Union concerning the post-Brexit relationship over Gibraltar. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said a draft mandate for talks published by the bloc on Tuesday “seeks to undermine the UK’s sovereignty” over the British overseas territory. He demanded it “cannot form a basis for negotiations”…
UK Post-Brexit Trade Deal With Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein Finalised
The UK has finalised a post-Brexit trade deal with Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein, the government has announced. International trade ministers agreed the deal in principle last month, but said the deal has now been signed by representatives from all nations. The Government said the deal will be a major boost for the four non-EU nations,…
Scottish and Northern Irish Ministers Raise Australia Deal Concerns
Rural affairs ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland have written to the UK government with concerns about the Australia trade deal. In a joint letter to International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, the two administrations say the deal risks having a disproportionate impact on domestic farmers and producers. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart,…
Hong Kong Applicants for UK Visas Far Outstrip Those From EU—Report
LONDON—Britain has received far more applications for visas from Hong Kong than from the European Union after a new system opened up for residents in the former British colony and post-Brexit rules kicked in, a report said on Thursday. There were 34,000 applications from Hong Kong residents to live in Britain in the first three…
Northern Ireland’s DUP Elects Hardliner Poots as New Leader
BELFAST—The new leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) pledged to unite the bickering strands of unionism to fight the Brexit deal and lay the foundations for keeping the province in the United Kingdom. Edwin Poots, seen by some commentators as more aggressive in his opposition to Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trade barriers and more…
Drifting Apart? European Firms Battle to Reach UK Clients
ROME/STOCKHOLM—Post-Brexit trade rules mean prosecco supplier Serena Wines 1881 must store bottles destined for Britain on costlier, fumigated pallets in their own corner of its warehouse in the northeast Italian town of Conegliano. The new shipment requirement is one example of the extra cost and complexity that firms across continental Europe face serving British customers…
Northern Irish Leaders Struggle to Quell Worst Violence in Years
BELFAST—Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government put aside factional differences on Thursday to call for calm after frustration among pro-British unionists over post-Brexit trade barriers helped trigger some of the worst violence in the region in years. Despite the appeals, clashes spread further into Irish nationalist areas on Thursday night where police responded to petrol bomb and…
Northern Irish Leaders Set Aside Bickering to Urge End to Violence
BELFAST—Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government put aside factional differences on Thursday to appeal for calm after more than a week of nightly violence partly fuelled by frustration among pro-British unionists over post-Brexit trade barriers. Hundreds of youths in the British province’s capital Belfast set a hijacked bus on fire and attacked police with stones on Wednesday…
Northern Ireland Sees 3rd Night of Unrest Amid Post-Brexit Tensions
LONDON—Police and politicians in Northern Ireland appealed for calm on Monday after a third night of violence that saw Protestant youths start fires and pelt officers with bricks and gasoline bombs. The flareups come amid rising tensions over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland and worsening relations between the parties in the Protestant-Catholic power-sharing Belfast…
Disorder in Northern Ireland for Second Night Amid Brexit Tensions
Cars were set alight and masked people pelted a police van with petrol bombs on Saturday on the second successive evening of disorder in pro-British parts of Northern Ireland amid rising post-Brexit tensions in the region. Many pro-British unionists fiercely oppose the new trade barriers introduced between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United…
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